Geese lined The Velvet Underground’s ‘I’m Ready For The Man’ at a present in San Diego this week – watch footage under.
The acclaimed New York band are at present touring North America in assist of their 2025 album ‘Getting Killed’, and on Friday night time (October 31), they stopped off on the Quartyard in San Diego.
To open their encore, and “within the spirit of Halloween”, they launched right into a model of their NYC forebears’ traditional 1967 observe, with frontman Cameron Winter notably updating the lyric to, “I’m ready for my man / Bought $347 in my hand”.
Earlier of their set, in addition they raced by a montage of songs from The Stooges’ 1970 album ‘Enjoyable Home’, enjoying components of ‘Down On The Road’, ‘Free’ and ‘TV Eye’.
Try Geese doing ‘I’m Ready For The Essential’ right here:
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Geese performed:
‘Husbands’
‘Undoer’
‘Islands Of Males’
‘Getting Killed’
‘100 Horses’
‘Half Actual’
‘2122’
‘Down On The Road’ / ‘Free’ / ‘TV Eye’
‘Cowboy Nudes’
‘Au Pays Du Cocaine’
‘Bow Down’
‘Taxes’
‘Domoto’
‘Lengthy Island Metropolis Right here I Come’
‘I’m Ready For The Man’
‘Trinidad’
At a earlier present on the present tour in Denver, the band raffled off a flat tyre that that they had picked up on the best way to the live performance in assist of Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition.
The previous NME Cowl stars lately introduced a UK headline tour for 2026, which can kick off in Bristol’s Electrical on March 20 and soak up Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester, earlier than rounding out at London’s O2 Discussion board Kentish City on March 26. They will even play at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom on August 26 and at London’s Troxy on September 1. Discover any remaining tickets for the reveals right here.
Following their run of spring dates within the UK, the group will make appearances at Coachella 2026 and subsequent yr’s version of Primavera Sound Barcelona.
In a glowing five-star evaluation of ‘Getting Killed’, NME wrote: “There’s a lot occurring on this album that it appears like it could have been simple for the five-piece to lose sight of the larger image, but for all its abrupt shifts and complicated particulars, ‘Getting Killed’ one way or the other doesn’t ever really feel like there’s an excessive amount of at play or like its creators aren’t in full management.
“As an alternative, this can be a band residing as much as their popularity as exhilaratingly free-spirited, not a lot proving they deserve all of the accolades and fervent fanaticism effervescent round them however demanding it.”
Geese’s earlier album, ‘3D Nation’, appeared on NME‘s 50 greatest albums of 2023 record, the place it was hailed for capturing “a sound way more expansive than most bands at this stage of their profession”.
